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China’s MiniMax Launches Updated AI Model M3.1 Flash, Claims Major Improvements

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BEIJING, Oct 19 (Reuters) – Chinese AI startup ​MiniMax ‌launched an updated version of AI model ‌M3.1 ​Flash, ⁠it said in ⁠a statement on Monday. The company said ​the updated model ⁠delivers “generational” improvements ⁠in areas ​such as agentic ​tasks, programming and cybersecurity, ‌and that its online inference ⁠speed has nearly tripled while usage ⁠costs ‌have ⁠been reduced ​by ‌70%. (Reporting by ​Yukun Zhang, ⁠Shi Bu and Ryan Woo; Editin…

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China's MiniMax launches updated AI model M3.1 Flash, claims major improvements

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MiniMax has launched "M3.1 Flash" on its API, an artificial intelligence (AI) model of the "mixture-of-experts" type offered at a price of $0.15 per million tokens of entry. According to figures provided by the Chinese laboratory, the model gets a score of 62.2 on Automation-Bench v1.0.6, ahead of Opus 5 (50.3) and GPT-5.6 Sol (45.8). Coding results are more mixed: M3.1 Flash, which includes 428 billion parameters, gets a score of 73.7 on DeepSW…

MiniMax M3.1 Flash costs 0.15 dollars in input and 0.60 in output per million tokens. Weights are announced for October 23: list, benchmark and cost of a task remain different measures.

The Chinese AI start-up MiniMax introduces an M3.1 Flash model. Announced as 70% cheaper for use than its predecessor, its high efficiency hides a strong propensity to hallucinations.

MiniMax launches M3.1 Flash, a model of 428 billion parameters billed 0.15 dollars per million tokens, cut for IA agents. Item MiniMax M3.1 Flash: The Chinese model that breaks prices of IA agents appeared first on Coin Academy

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Startup Fortune broke the news on Monday, October 19, 2026.
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